Pakistani drone strikes residential area in Punjab's Ferozepur, 3 injured

The Indian Armed Forces also successfully neutralised Pakistan military's attempts at a large-scale drone and missile attack on multiple Indian military installations across Northern and Western India

One Pakistani drone on Friday hit a residential area in Ferozepur, Punjab, injuring three people. Three people suffered burn injuries and were immediately rushed to the hospital, SSP Ferozepur, Bhupinder Singh Sidhu said.

"We received information about 3 people being injured. They have burn injuries. Doctors will treat them. Most of the drones have been neutralised by the army," Bhupinder Singh Sidhu said to the news agency ANI.

On a family who got injured in Pakistani drone attack, Dr Kamal Bagi said to news agency ANI, "Due to drone-bomb, three people got injured. Out of these, the condition of a woman is critical, she has suffered severe burns. The other two have lesser burns. We have immediately started their treatment. They are from the same family."

#WATCH | Ferozepur, Punjab: On a family who got injured in Pakistani drone attack, Dr Kamal Bagi says, "Due to drone-bomb, three people got injured. Out of these, the condition of a woman is critical, she has suffered severe burns. The other two have lesser burns. We have pic.twitter.com/s7ELhm6ihH

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Indian Air Defence has intercepted most of the drones in the Ferozepur area.

Meanwhile, drone attacks on Srinagar airport and south Kashmir's Awantipora air base were thwarted late on Friday, officials said. The attempted attack came a day after India thwarted attempts by the Pakistan military to attack Indian military installations using drones and missiles.

Drones were also sighted in north Kashmir's Baramulla district, officials said, adding that countermeasures had been initiated. The sky was lit up in Baramulla district as the Indian military shot down Pakistani drones.

Earlier in the evening, blasts were heard and sirens sounded in the Jammu region and south Kashmir as many parts of Jammu and Kashmir plunged into darkness, officials said. Defence officials said drones were also sighted in Jammu, Samba and neighbouring Pathankot district in Punjab and they were being engaged.

In Srinagar, mosque loudspeakers were used to convey to locals to switch off their lights as a precautionary measure. The officials said drones were also engaged in Udhampur and Nagrota of Jammu and Punjab.

Tension between the two neighbours soared after the Indian Armed Forces on Wednesday conducted precision strikes targeting terror launchpads in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in response to the April 22 attack by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam in which 26 people, mostly tourists, were killed.